D. 30 and Today – by: Tim StaffordRead Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4What does the Master say about prayer? He who knew the Father like no other surely knew how to talk to Him like no other. Open the Bible, analyze, and discover precepts Jesus taught.The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. Prayer was not a foreign concept to the Jewish disciples, so they must have been reaching for something more from the Master. In a short little model, He taught them. Today, Christians call the model the \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer.\u201dAuthor Tim Stafford discusses the setting of the prayer. He suggests the context of Jesus\u2019 teaching was a consciousness of God\u2019s kingdom. Appropriately reframing that context for today, prayer is done in the context of consciousness of God\u2019s Church. Christians pray as part of the Body of Christ. Paul\u2019s prayers for individuals sometimes display a consciousness of a view to the larger context of the Church (Eph 1: 15-21, 3:14-21; Phil 1:9-11; Col 1:9-12).According to Stafford, Jesus\u2019 prayer had to do with the urgent agenda of the kingdom He announced to Israel (p. 140).\u00a0 Translating that to today, Christians ought to pray for God\u2019s agenda for the Church to become a reality. Just as God had an agenda for the kingdom that is yet to be fulfilled, the realization of God\u2019s will for the Church should be our constant prayer.\u00a0 With God\u2019s agenda for the Church in mind, what Jesus taught in the \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer\u201d can apply to today?Discuss the implications of the various aspects of the Lord\u2019s Prayer for the church today.\u00a0 How is it relevant?\u00a0 How is it practical?\u00a0 What aspects do you see evident in your church experience?\u00a0 What aspects seem to be missing in the modern church?Support your work with scholarly academic resources, textbooks, or other sources provided.\u00a0 Quoting or paraphrasing from any source in discussion posts requires APA -7format by including an in-text citation and listing the reference at the end of the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
D. 30 and Today – by: Tim StaffordRead Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4What does the Master say about prayer? He who knew the Father like no other surely knew how to talk to Him like no other. Open the Bible, analyze, and discover precepts Jesus taught.The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. Prayer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-62017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}